Random sketches by Thomas

[Wired]

You should really try to translate what you did with the mountains and chasm there into your digital works because they look really, really good, Thomas.

[ThomasR]

Thanks Sebastian, I really feel I have to practice more though. They'll appear on my lite challenge map for sure, then, digital

[jshoer]

Looking good, Thomas!

[ThomasR]

Looking good, Thomas!

Thanks Joseph, your thread is really great !

Here are some more mountains that you can see poorly used in my Bogia map :

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Two random sketches done with a soft brush :

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And finally, I bought a new sketchbook whose format is a bit odd and seized the occasion to try and master the brush a bit more. Drawn with a Kuretake soft brush n°13 over a pencil sketch.

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Next : another style of mountains. Stay tuned !

[ThomasR]

While thinking about fonts and labels on my Lite Challenge map, I played a bit with J.Edward's lovely hand writing. As someone who's basically impaired when it comes to hand writing (give a pen to a poney, it'll write way better than me and it doesn't even have fingers) I really enjoyed mimicking this simple yet elegant and full of graphic possibilities lettering. Here are some results :

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[Ilanthar]

Nice! I can see J.Edward's influence and it's way better than what a poney could do (they are cheating when no one is looking ).

[ThomasR]

Merci Julien

[ThomasR]

Hi folks,

Just a short post to say I put two torn parchment drawings free for personal use up to download here. If you ever use it, drop me a link to the result, I'd love to see it.

Cheers !

[ThomasR]

I've been posting some maps on Twitter and Instagram lately but hadn't taken the time to scan them properly. It is done, here they come, both at full size :

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Just two little unoriginal maps done to kill some time when at work (watching over pupils taking tests can be pretty boring).

EDIT : I almost forgot ! I've been pretty inspired by J.Edward's work on Instagram (seriously, if you're not following him, you're missing some treats) and wanted to try his pencil sketches. My forest isn't nearly as good as his and my mountains lack consistency (the problem with starting a sketch and going back at it sleep deprived ...) but I'm pretty satisfied with it nonetheless.

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[Gidde]

The compass rose in the right-hand sketch is awesome! And the mountains don't look all that inconsistent to me Certainly better than anything I've ever produced in pencil; the eraser is just too darn tempting.